veiled4allah: worrisome trend continues: shots fired at Texas mosque veiled4allah: worrisome trend continues: shots fired at Texas mosqueA spokesman for the Islamic Society of Denton told CAIR that two shots were fired at the mosque Thursday evening between 6 and 8 p.m. One projectile penetrated a window and landed in the prayer area of the mosque. Another projectile damaged the mosque's main door. No one was injured in the attack. Local police are investigating the incident. (Following the 9/11 terror attacks, the Denton mosque was damaged by two firebombs.)... ...Awad said he is concerned that there has not been a vocal response by state and national elected officials to anti-Muslim incidents in Texas. He cited a recent e-mailed threat against the Islamic Center of El Paso, a series of arson fires at Muslim businesses in San Antonio and racist graffiti scrawled on the interior of a Lubbock mosque.
Similar incidents are occurring across the nation. Just this week, CAIR detailed a series of attacks by vandals on the Islamic Center of Ocean County in Toms River, N.J. In Florida, a Muslim business owner wearing an Islamic head scarf was attacked by people who accused her of being responsible for the recent bombings in Madrid.
Last week, CAIR announced a new campaign designed to counter anti-Muslim hate on radio talk shows. The campaign, called "Hate Hurts America," is based on the premise that the increasing attacks on Islam by conservative talk show hosts harm the United States by creating a downward spiral of interfaith mistrust and hostility.
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Subject: distrubing trends against Muslims in US
I noticed it the other day in a club I was in. A group of Islamic people want to build a Mosque and the men in the club were making fun and trying to imitate the praying five times a day, which is part of the Islamic faith....they were talking about how the neighbor would not want to hear the loud noise over the intercom.Years ago here in this city, they banned Church Bells from Christian Churches which used to ring three times a day to remind people to pray at those times.....
There is always going to be prejudice, but if this terrorism worldwide continues, it's going to get worse here....it's the blue collar, uneducated mostly who do these things...the educated are usually more tolerant and understanding....but just like innocent Japanese who lived here during the WW II who were taken into concentration camps until the war was over, unless all this madness stops, it will continue.
I just wish there would be a summit where Bin Laden and the leaders of Al Queda could meet safely with other world leaders to find out why this is going on besides the Iraqi and Israeli issue and what it would take to stop it. Without negotiation and communication, this is going to be like the 100 years war.
Otherwise, the poor mother earth is doomed along with her inhabitants. It's just all madness.
Salaam
and Peace be to all.
Subject: Re: distrubing trends against Muslims in US
OK, if bin laden was to meet with other world leaders, what country, exactly, would the terrorist represent? His stated intention is the destruction of the west and all things non-Muslim. How do you negotiate with someone whose only aim is your destruction? And if his brand of Islam is just fanaticism, where is the outcry of disgust towards men like him from the peaceful Muslims in the US and other western countries?I agree that mainly uneducated, frustrated rednecks perpetrate violence towards peaceful people. But, there are more and more people in the US who are educating themselves about Islam. And when the truth of the desire for an Islamic state requiring the choice of conversion or another tax and with the oppressive laws of Sharia, the resistance will grow. It is hard for me to see the coexistence of true Islam and western, open societies.
Worship in your mosque's and submit to your God. But, don't sugar coat your faith's real aim. That is not truthful.
Subject: Re: distrubing trends against Muslims in US
You've certainly leaped to a whole bunch of conclusions about me haven't you? I'm a Muslim, therefore I must be a fanatic and defend terrorism. It really takes very little effort on your part to visit the front page of my blog (which is linked from several places on this page) and check out some of the links that I've made available there. A good place to start is Muslims Condemn Terrorism. You'll lfind links there to statements by every major Muslim group in North America, and representing many Muslim countries. No doubt the collection would be more complete were I not limited to materials in English. The page also contains links to many writings by ordinary Muslims, including myself. I have posted many, many times to this blog condemning terrorism, and I've helpfully linked to that there.When you're done with that page, I invite you to come back to veiled4allah and check out some of my other links in order to learn more about Islam. Before you condemn a thing, it's only fair for you to take some time to actually learn about it.
Subject: Re: distrubing trends against Muslims in US
Papa:In the heart of the contemporary mainstream Islam lies a malignant black hole of genocidal hatred, deranged bloodlust and militant ignorance (Al-M. will inevitably say those who are aware of that project the "mirror image" of the same traits -- whatever).
HOWEVER, in the safety of the Great -- and the Little -- Satan's (and its northern neighbor's) all-accepting bosom (too all-accepting for its own good), sane and decent Muslims (at least nominally) who speak their minds do exist:
Irshad Manji
Salim Mansur
Sarah Nasser
That makes three (so far). And of course, the fact that we marvel and feel compelled to dance for joy and pass out candy at the sight of things, obvious to any sane and decent person, coming from a Muslim, speaks volumes.
Subject: Re: distrubing trends against Muslims in US
Muslims are like any other group of people. Some are good, some are bad, and some are in between. Islam is like any other religion, good can be done by its adherents, and in its name, and great evil can be done. To think that Muslims are somehow different from other groups of people, that they're innately worse, is racist. I no longer expect you to understand that, it's clear that you live in your own world of bigotry, but I hope that others will have the basic decency and fairness to take the time to learn for themselves.Subject: Re: distrubing trends against Muslims in US
Is Islam a race? Then you yourself can't possibly be a Muslim -- you were not born one, after all.I gotta tell you, throwing "racism!" libel at any argument you happen to not like awfully cheapens that charge. So you're not doing yourself any favors by abusing it in such a way.
Did you not read my links? I respect and admire those (few and far between) Muslims who have the courage and the decency to stand up to jihad. But they are not the majority. They don't have any power. The homunculi like that lovely "jihad" chap who left a (now deleted) pile of excrement in another thread are and do. The savages who murdered Nick Berg while chanting praise to their god are and do. That is the today's face of Islam.
Do you not realize that you have as much to lose as the rest of us if the imams and the jihadis and their sycophants/useful idiots have their way and the West disintegrates? Do you not realize that your claims "But I was on your side! I whitewashed, and apologized, and obfuscated, and cried racism at your critics!" would mean nothing to them?
Subject: Re: distrubing trends against Muslims in US
This is really quite pointless. You obviously have no intention of changing your mind, since you've been saying the same thing for well over a year and a half. I have no idea what your aim is in continuing to post here, whether you hope to change my mind or whether you consider yourself on a mission to make sure that nobody is led astray by me into thinking that Islam has any redeeming characteristics or that Muslims can be good people. Have you considered getting your own blog, where you can warn people against me to your heart's content? Blogger is free. I recommend it and I think it's a much more productive use of your time than hanging around a blog that less than a hundred people a day even see.Subject: Re: distrubing trends against Muslims in US
Ouch! The racism card, always the last resort of the desparate.Islam is not a race, it is a religion.
I don't think shooting up Texas mosques is the key to re-educating Muslims, but equally Muslims shouldn't assume that anything goes in the Western civil societies.
I think in future years we will see a reformed Muslim faith in the West, if it survives at all. This will include a re-edited Koran, purged of its anti-women, anti-"Pagan" hatred.
For Muslim countries, I think there will be a retreat into ever-more bankrupt forms of the religion. There is interesting news coming out of Basra. There the Muslim militias are forcing female students to be hooded before entering the campus and are trying to separate men and women.
Subject: Re: distrubing trends against Muslims in US
Evidently, it is pointless. Mit der Dummheit -- or (self-)taqiyyah -- kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.